[this story has updated since this post — Jones has agreed to cancel the book burning]

Religion really fucks up this world. Whack-job Pastor Jones ain’t “backing down” and whack-job Islamists promise that Americans will be killed. From a Comcast news story today:

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Petraeus spoke Wednesday with Afghan President Karzai about the matter, according to a military spokesman Col. Erik Gunhus. “They both agreed that burning of a Quran would undermine our effort in Afghanistan, jeopardize the safety of coalition troopers and civilians,” Gunhus said, and would “create problems for our Afghan partners … as it likely would be Afghan police and soldiers who would have to deal with any large demonstrations.”

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said that the pastor’s plans were outrageous, and along with Defense Secretary Robert Gates, urged Jones to cancel the event.

“It is regrettable that a pastor in Gainesville, Florida, with a church of no more than 50 people can make this outrageous and distrustful, disgraceful plan and get the world’s attention, but that’s the world we live in right now,” Clinton said in remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations.

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U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder during a meeting Tuesday with religious leaders to discuss recent attacks on Muslims and mosques around the U.S. called the planned burning idiotic and dangerous, according to a Justice Department official. The official requested anonymity because the meeting was private.

In Afghanistan, Jones’ planned burning continued to provoke outrage.

“It is the duty of Muslims to react,” said Mohammad Mukhtar, a cleric and candidate for the Afghan parliament in the Sept. 18 election. “When their holy book Quran gets burned in public, then there is nothing left. If this happens, I think the first and most important reaction will be that wherever Americans are seen, they will be killed. No matter where they will be in the world they will be killed.”

WTF is wrong with religious people?

They need a big hit of reality.

Love the Xtian – Xpose the lies.

I'm doing my part to save Christian Fundamentalists who, because of their repeated and unrepentant disobedience to their god's 9th Commandment, could face an eternal damnation in Hell with all the sinners they so despise. I'm pulling the plank out of my eye and smackin' Fundies upside they heads with it. ;-)

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The Bible says you'll be mocked ... just doin' my job.

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I am an atheist because I know too much to believe. As an EX-Christian, that's what I mostly post about, so don't get your christer persecution-panties in a bunch -- I'll try to dump on other delusions, I mean religions, as well.

Get out of that closed loop, learn the history of your Bible, your religion, other religions. Face the truth: your Bible is full of forgeries, fabrications, plagiaries and factual errors.

Remember: thousands of people wise up and leave Christianity, Mormonism, Islam, supernaturalism and other delusions every year, freed from the bonds of superstition, fear, lies and oppression. It's not too late for you!

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